Sustainability Fellows Current and Past Participants

Bhavya Wadhwa is a first year Computer Science master’s student. In India, where Bhavya grew up, she helped build a website for a residential retirement community, which helped the organization expand their fundraising efforts.

Tori Wyman interned for Piscataqua Savings Bank in the summer of 2020 to help implement best practices outlined by the UNH…

Sarah spent the summer of 2020 in New England interning with Prime Buchholz LLC, where she supported their Mission Aligned Investment Committee, worked with data and research professionals to score managers with respect to…

Prior to graduating from UNH in 2020, Bristol, CT native, Cassidy Yates, spent the summer of 2019 working with the City of Lebanon to complete greenhouse gas inventories for the years 2015 and 2018.

Kortni Wroten worked with Sustainability Director Kate Hanley to pinpoint and analyze strategies for reducing commercial sector emissions in the Town of Concord, Massachusetts.

Katy Winkler worked with Cambridge Energy Planner Nikhil Nadkarni and Cambridge Energy Alliance Outreach Director Meghan Shaw to develop a strategy for engaging the community in a co-design of residential energy programs.

As a Sustainability Fellow, Emily traveled to all six New England states to gather dozens of stories of people building a sustainable food future for the region.

In collaboration with the Vermont Department of Health Climate & Health Program, Rachel completed the Integrated Transport and Health Impact Modeling Tool (ITHIM) to quantify the health, economic and environmental co-benefits of a variety of transportation futures in Vermont.

Celina Scott-Buechler is a climate scientist and activist. As a UNHSI Sustainability Fellow, Celina had the privilege of working with Peace Rising. Conducting research in distributed climate change impacts and US foreign policy, she compiled a report exposing how American foreign policy is ill-…

Veronique Ok is from Danbury, CT, and graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 2019 with a Bachelor of Science in Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems and Environmental Resource Economics. Veronique has worked extensively with the New American population in Manchester, NH both through…

Justin Klingler graduated from the University of New Hampshire with a Master's in Public Policy in 2019 and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and International Affairs in 2018. He is interested in energy and environmental policy. In 2019, he worked on a joint campus-community climate…

Laura Hutchinson worked with the Town of Hanover, New Hampshire to develop a community-wide renewable energy procurement strategy in collaboration with Sustainability Director April Salas, Town Manager Julia Griffin, and the Sustainable Hanover Energy Subcommittee. Laura created a community-wide…